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Wilma Mankiller

1945 - 2010

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a federal government program to urbanize Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilma Mankiller has received more than 1,390,323 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wilma Mankiller is the 5,939th most popular writer (down from 5,861st in 2019), the 9,505th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,395th in 2019) and the 721st most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.4M

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  • 51.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilma Mankiller ranks 5,939 out of 7,302. Before her are René Boylesve, Jorge Enrique Adoum, William Inge, Mina Loy, Ian Buruma, and Zoé Valdés. After her are Philippe Delerm, Christian Kracht, Göran Sonnevi, Sita Ram Goel, Benny Andersen, and Claude Esteban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Wilma Mankiller ranks 559. Before her are Wolfgang Seguin, Hugh Hopper, Luis Garisto, Bjarni Tryggvason, Amos Sawyer, and Millie Hughes-Fulford. After her are Muriel Casals i Couturier, Michael Hayden, Narendra Dabholkar, Anthony Braxton, Javier Guzmán, and Ghiță Licu. Among people deceased in 2010, Wilma Mankiller ranks 369. Before her are Bill Erwin, George Steinbrenner, Avi Cohen, Harry Schwarz, Loris Kessel, and Pete Quaife. After her are Jacinto Villalba, Shunpei Uto, Joaquín Capilla, Kenneth Lane, Roman Dmitriyev, and Park Yong-ha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Wilma Mankiller ranks 9,505 out of 20,380. Before her are Hugh Wilson (1943), Florence B. Seibert (1897), DJ Yella (1967), Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843), John Cornyn (1952), and Jim Duggan (1954). After her are Dan Coats (1943), Mae Young (1923), Michael Hayden (1945), Emile Hirsch (1985), Sylvia Rivera (1951), and John Sebastian (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Wilma Mankiller ranks 721. Before her are Naomi Novik (1973), Tim LaHaye (1926), Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Meg Cabot (1967), Alvah Bessie (1904), and William Inge (1913). After her are J. Michael Straczynski (1954), James Dickey (1923), Damon Lindelof (1973), Daniel Quinn (1935), Winston Churchill (1871), and Walter Lord (1917).

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